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Built circa 1840, this was later the home of Asa Partridge Childs (1804-1878) and his second wife, Martha Howard (1823-1888). In about 1865, having made a fortune in the wholesale shoe manufacturing business that he had inherited from his father, Asa "found in the later years of his life enjoyment and ease in the society of his children, amid the refinements of his suburban residence". Among those children who grew up here was Adelaide Childs who in 1881, three years after her father's death, married Pittsburgh's famous industrialist and art collector, Henry Clay Frick. Asa Childs died at his East End home in 1878 and his widow maintained the house until 1887. The Childs house is long since demolished, but it stood on the corner of Forbes Avenue and Halket Street on the present site of what is today the Magee-Women's Hospital.